The Bass Plays the Bass and other Homographs (formerly ZoolaPalooza)
The all-animal touring concert event Zoolapalooza has come to town! With a motley crew of animals playing a variety of instruments, homographs abound. “Billy the Striped BASS opens the show wearing a big striped BOW tie. He gives a gracious BOW from the top of his BASS fiddle.” This terrific companion to Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones brings homographs to the spotlight for a show-stopping good time.
Reviews
Kirkus Reviews: “A topic only rarely addressed gets whimsical treatment in this latest from wordplay master Barretta.”
Publisher’s Weekly: “Young readers should appreciate Barretta’s ability to construct miniature story lines using the homographs.”
Booklist: “Barretta builds a picture book around homographs, words that look the same but have different meanings and pronunciations . . . they’ll enjoy Barretta’s wit and the atmosphere of controlled chaos in the high-energy watercolor illustrations.”
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HONORS
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2012 - "The Bass Plays the Bass" (formerly Zoola Palooza) included on the 2012-2013 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List.
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2012 - "The Bass Plays the Bass" (formerly Zoola Palooza) included on 2012 IRA Teacher’s Choice Reading List.
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2011 - "The Bass Plays the Bass" (formerly Zoola Palooza) chosen among Amazon’s Best Books of the Month for June.
